Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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